LZ 13

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LZ 13 "Hansa" on a landing in 1912
LZ 13 on September 19, 1912 in Copenhagen
Passenger compartment of LZ 13

The Zeppelin LZ 13 "Hansa" was a commercial airship owned by the Deutsche Luftschiffahrts-Aktiengesellschaft ( DELAG ) at the beginning of the 20th century.

history

LZ 13 was structurally identical to the Zeppelin LZ 11 "Viktoria Luise" and was also used as a DELAG airship for domestic German passenger air traffic. The first run of LZ 13 took place on July 30, 1912.

On September 19, 1912, the "Hansa" sailed for the first time outside Germany via Denmark and southern Sweden. This trip was a demonstration flight for German Zeppelin technology in the hope of regular passenger flights with zeppelins to the northern neighboring countries. During this flight, the 75-year-old Graf Zeppelin and the boss of DELAG Hugo Eckener were in the pilot's gondola of the airship . After a 700 km journey, the airship landed again at 4.45 p.m. on the same day in the home port of Fuhlsbüttel near Hamburg.

In the DELAG operation, the "Hansa" had locations in Hamburg, Gotha, Potsdam and Leipzig. By July 31, 1914, LZ 13 had covered 44,437 km in 399 journeys and carried 6,217 passengers. The captains of LZ 13 at DELAG were Wilhelm Dörr and Anton Heinen.

With the outbreak of the First World War , the army took over the airship and converted it for military use. A platform for two machine guns was placed on the ridge of the ship. As a military airship, the Zeppelin carried out reconnaissance trips to France and over the Baltic Sea.

From the spring of 1915, the now technically outdated airship was used as a training ship. In the army training service, LZ 13 was based in Dresden, Düsseldorf, Berlin-Johannisthal, Berlin-Biesdorf and Jüterbog. It made over 500 trips via Berlin. During these training trips for new airship crews, a commission of the Great General Staff , which also included Graf Zeppelin, carried out radio tests for weeks between the steamer Siegesfürst on the Müggelsee and LZ 13. The Supreme Army Command wanted the results of the reconnaissance to be transmitted more quickly by radio. At the same time, tests were carried out to determine to what extent the enemy or weather-related events could disrupt radio communications from airships.

End of LZ 13

In the summer of 1916 the obsolete and worn out airship was decommissioned and disarmed in Jüterbog in August 1916 .

Technical specifications

  • Carrying gas volume: 18,700 m³ hydrogen
  • Length: 148 m
  • Diameter: 14.0 m
  • Empty weight: 20.25 t
  • Payload: 6.3 t
  • Drive: Three Maybach engines of 170 hp each
  • Speed: 22.2 m / s

literature

  • Peter Meyer: Airships - The History of the German Zeppelins , Wehr & Wissen, Koblenz / Bonn 1980.

See also

Web links

Commons : LZ 13 Hansa  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kurt Groggert: Spree trip is necessary! , Haude & Spenersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1972, pp. 69–70